The Civil Service laws were posited upon the need for an apolitical career bureaucracy for experience and continuity between Presidencies. Clearly the bureaucracy is anything but apolitical. It is long past time to start reconsidering the Civil Service construct.
Indeed. And I will bet you that the Obama crew did everything they could to embed these political plants into the career-track government employee workforce.
They must be rounded up and purged, IMO - whatever it takes.